Thoughts on how race discrimination continues to be a serious problem in jury selection
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Anonymous
Interesting. I'm a wf 49 y.o. and I've never served either, I've never even been questioned. |
Anonymous
And so therefore...? Surely you wouldn't conclude from this that there is no such thing as an all white jury or racial discrimination in jury selection? That would be like me concluding that nobody sits on a jury, because I have been called for jury duty four times but have never sat on a jury. |
Anonymous
The point is that prosecutors are much more likely to strike potential jurors who are black than potential jurors who are white. How does your fact relate to this point? Or are prosecutors striking potential jurors who didn't show up for jury duty? |
Anonymous
| I am 57 years old, African American. I have been registered to vote since I was 18 years old. I have never once been called for jury duty. Not once in my life. |
Anonymous
42 year old AA. Got my first letter last year and showed up but not selected. Contrary to what many may presume I was disappointed. |
Anonymous
That's amazing. I'm AA and have been called for jury duty 3 times in the last 2 years. Once for the city, one for district and one for federal court. |
MikeL
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Not trying to say anything about this topic, just echoing your experience. I am 58 years old. White. Registered to vote since I was 18. I have never once been called for jury duty. |
Anonymous
| I'm a 38 yo white female who's been summoned five times in my life. I've lived in five cities in three states and have been called in all of them. I only served on one traffic jury, however. |
Anonymous
| Assign jurors numbers, supply some background information and only identify gender. Let the questioning begin behind a curtain. That would be about the only way you could take race out of it. |
Anonymous
That is not the argument being made. The OP stated that 4 showed up and were dismissed for bogus reasons. That is the reason for this being elevated to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court justices found fault with the logic of the prosecutors made in dismissing the black jurors. Nothing was stated about not showing up. |
Anonymous
I will type slowly, so maybe, just maybe, you will understand. Black people not showing up for jury duty has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the ones who DID show up were not selected. This post is about the ones who showed up and were not selected because they were black. Get it now? |